EAST LANSING – A couple key possessions in Michigan State’s 77-64 comeback win over Providence on Sunday consisted of a new play, unofficially titled: Everyone Get Out of the Way and Let Eron Drive.

Junior guard and West Virginia transfer Eron Harris executed by zipping past his defender and finishing. It was as much a breakthrough performance as a 12-point game can be for a designated scorer.

“He’s getting better every practice, he’s starting to get more comfortable,” MSU coach Tom Izzo said of Harris, who scored more than 17 points a game as a sophomore at West Virginia and is at 6.6 right now. “And I tell you, we’ve been hard on Eron because I think he has so much to give. But he has handled it pretty well. He practices hard and he has made some big plays.”

And No. 3 MSU (7-0) will seek more from Harris on Wednesday in an Elite Eight rematch that will feature key transfers all over the floor. No. 24 Louisville (5-0) comes to Breslin Center for an ACC/Big Ten Challenge game (7:15 p.m., ESPN) with a very different team than the one that fell 76-70 to the Spartans in an overtime classic last season in the East regional final in Syracuse, N.Y.

Lewis and MSU senior guard Bryn Forbes were Cleveland State’s top two scorers in the 2013-14 season – Forbes at 15.6 points a game, Lewis at 13.1 – so there’s some familiarity on the MSU side from that perspective. But this is a Louisville team with seven new players.

“Totally different team,” MSU senior guard Denzel Valentine said. “They’ve got Quentin Snider and a couple bigs they had. But I was watching the film, and it’s pretty much a new five that we’re going to be playing against. It’s a totally different team, similar offensive styles, similar defensive styles.”

That means, of course, varying degrees of full-court pressing, along with a matchup zone that can give teams problems because of Louisville’s size – five players 6-9 or taller, something Izzo said concerns him about this game. MSU will miss center Gavin Schilling (turf toe) again, while Louisville will be without 6-7 freshman forward Deng Adel (knee).

Izzo also is uncertain how his team will rebound after getting home at 7 a.m. Monday from California – that Wooden Legacy Classic final against Providence tipped off at 10 p.m. Sunday in Anaheim. And Izzo said he will take the time before the game to talk to MSU’s student section Izzone about “class and respect.”

“They’re a great basketball team, a great program, a lot of respect for their coaches, their players, everything they do that way,” Valentine said. “Not paying attention too much to the controversy they had. It’s none of our business or none of that. We’re just playing against Louisville.”

A very different Louisville, driven by transfer guards. And this can be a different, and better, Michigan State if its latest transfer guard keeps driving.

“I knew it was coming,” Harris said of his Providence performance. “I was happy I was able to contribute the way I did. I’m happy my teammates were satisfied with my performance. Personally, I know I’m not all the way satisfied with what I’ve been doing. I know I can shore up some things on defense, shore up some things on offense, bring some more to the table.”